SOCI 4055 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Slighting, Ethnography, Neoliberalism
Document Summary
Mitchell duneier"s sidewalk tracks the trials and tribulations of black homeless book vendors and magazine scavengers who ply their trade in a touristy section of lower. Elijah anderson"s code of the street chronicles the raging battle between street and. Katherine newman"s no shame in my game depicts the gallant struggles of the. Working poor of harlem to uphold the hallowed values of thrift, family, and community in the bowels of the deregulated service economy. Sidewalk proffers a sprawling stockpile of data without any theory to organize it and strives, by default, to bring these data to bear on a crime-and- policing issue that they are ill-suited to address. Code of the street is animated by a thesis, that proximate mentoring makes a difference in the fate of ghetto residents, that is glaringly disconnected from, even invalidated by, its own findings.
